# Sr Data Conversion Consultant - Higher Education

**Company**: Workday
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We’re Workday, a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. As a Senior Data Conversion Consultant, you will play a key role in delivering successful Workday Student deployments by leading data conversion activities across the full project lifecycle.

You will partner with customers, project managers, functional consultants, and technical teams to define the conversion approach, understand legacy student data, support data mapping and transformation, and load accurate, high-quality data into Workday Student.

This role focuses on complex Student domain data, including academic structures, student records, admissions, curriculum, programs of study, enrollment, academic history, and student financials. You will help customers understand Workday Student data requirements, assess data readiness, identify quality risks, resolve conversion challenges, and support validation and reconciliation through mock loads, testing, cutover, and production deployment.

Success in this role requires strong technical problem-solving skills, practical data conversion experience, and the ability to explain complex data topics clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. You will be expected to manage issues proactively, communicate risks and recommendations, and drive work to completion.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead data conversion activities across the full project lifecycle

- Partner with customers, project managers, functional consultants, and technical teams to define the conversion approach

- Understand legacy student data and support data mapping and transformation

- Load accurate, high-quality data into Workday Student

- Help customers understand Workday Student data requirements and assess data readiness

- Identify quality risks and resolve conversion challenges

- Support validation and reconciliation through mock loads, testing, cutover, and production deployment

**Requirements**

- 6+ years of data migration, integration development, report building, or software development experience

- 6+ years of experience with technical consulting, requirements gathering, or solution design

- 6+ years of Human Resource, Payroll, Financials, Supply Chain, or Student domain experience

- Experience with Workday Student or higher education student information systems is strongly preferred

- Proficiency with data tooling such as ETL tools, SQL/MySQL, XML, Microsoft Excel, stored procedures, or similar technologies

- Experience leading customer data requirements sessions or technical workshops

- Participation in a minimum of 1 full life cycle software implementation

- Understanding of the complete software implementation lifecycle, including data requirements gathering, data mapping, data transformation, data migration, data validation, data reconciliation, testing, cutover, and move to production

- Experience using GitHub, Python, and/or Ruby

- Prior experience with Workday data conversion technologies such as iLoad, EIB, Advanced Load

- Experience with AI products, prompt engineering and agent development

**Benefits**

- Flexible work arrangements, with at least 50% of time spent in the office or in the field

- Opportunity to work with a global team and contribute to delivery best practices, reusable assets, knowledge sharing, and mentoring

## Skills

### Required
- data migration
- integration development
- report building
- software development
- technical consulting
- requirements gathering
- solution design
- ETL tools
- SQL/MySQL
- XML
- Microsoft Excel
- stored procedures
- GitHub
- Python
- Ruby

### Nice to have
- Workday Student
- higher education student information systems
- iLoad
- EIB
- Advanced Load
- AI products
- prompt engineering
- agent development

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